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The First Estate General Meeting
King Louis XVI gathers the estates generals of the first general meeting since 1614. Louis XVI had guards stand out side of the doors where the meeting was being held so the third estate could not be part of the meeting. The third estate decided the split from the estates general and became its own National Assembly. -
Tennis Court Oath
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Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was when the third estate separated from the general meeting. They wanted the constitution to change completely. They made an oath stating that they will not stop meeting until the French constitution has changed. -
Storming of the Bastille
Commander of the Bastille started a battle by having an open fire on the crowd. People crowd the streets outside of the gates to invade and to steal weapons. "Men will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."- Denis -
The Great Fear
The declaration of the Rights of Man, took two years for the National Assembly to create. During the two years, peasant mobes were roaming France going for the nobles. They would break in to the nobles home and steal their food and kill them one by one. The nobles were afraid of the third estate to the point tat they are leaving the country. -
Declaration of Pilnitz
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Declaration of Pilnitz
Austria and Prussia saw the French revolution a a bad thing. They issued the Declaration of Pilnitz that threatens the people to stop trying to get rid of the monarchy. In 1792, the two Euopean countries declared war on France for not following the Declaration of Pilnitz. -
Execution of the King
King Louis XVI ad his wife, Marie Antoinette, were forced by a mob to go live in Tuileries. When the monarchy was abolished, King Louis was sent back to Paris after being convicted of counterrevolutionary with Austria. King Louis XVI was killed on January 21, 1793 with the Guillotine. -
Reign of Terror
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Reign of Terror
The Ruin of Terror was the time of the revolution the the French government decides that they should start having harsh punishments for the people the are enemies. They would execute anyone that they felt were against them and they would pay the executioner extra if they wanted them to sharpen an axe. They would mainly use the Guillotine that would cut the head off clean.The guillotine killed around 30,000 people. -
Execution of Robespierre
Robespierre was an influential figures buring the French Revolution. He wa part of the Committee of Public Safey but was the main reason for Reign of Terror. He encouraged them to use the guillotine for around 17,000 people. Rodespierre was arrested and executed in 1794. -
Napoleanic Control
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Napoleanic Control
Napolean was a French military leader during the French Revolution. He crowd himself the Emperor of France in 1804. He had a lot of wars with other European countries and an invasion with Russia in 1812.
